NEARLY 300 "highly educated and tough", radicalised French women are currently in Syria with Islamic State, plotting attacks on their return to Europe, an expert on jihadists has warned.

An expert has warned that nearly 300 French female jihadis are currently in Syria

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Khosrokhavar warned that they are dtermined to return to Europe and launch attacks

Just two weeks ago, Paris prosecutor François Molins said a worrying number of "underage females with disturbing profiles and very tough personalities" were suspected of planning attacks on French soil.

This fear was confirmed after a "female terror commando" was identified last week, as part of three "fanatical and radicalised" women aged 19, 23 and 39 who were arrested after a car loaded with gas cylinders was found abandoned near Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.